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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4992953 | Computer assisted design method and apparatus A computer assisted design apparatus displays on a display device a graphic pattern of a layout object and a graphic pattern of a liquid stay area for the layout object. The liquid stay area includes a drain stay area and a vent stay area to which a drain... | 02/12/1991 |
| 4985855 | Method for producing installation instructions for three dimensional assemblies A method of producing instructions for installing a three dimensional cable assembly in a larger assembly. A three dimensional digital computer model of the cable assembly and a larger assembly is designed ab initio by using a three dimensional mechanical... | 01/15/1991 |
| 4964246 | Rigidity control system for variable rigidity structure The present invention contemplates a rigidity control system for a variable rigidity structure incorporating variable rigidity elements, such as braces, for making the connecting condition with the frame variable between the locked and unlocked conditions... | 10/23/1990 |
| 4965740 | Apparatus and method for selecting and positioning truss connector plates Connector plates are positioned at selected truss joints by representing each wood member of the truss as a corresponding two-dimensional polygon. Each side of the polygon is defined by a corresponding member vector having starting and ending points relat... | 10/23/1990 |
| 4964043 | System for visualizing, identifying and ordering gearing configurations The present invention enables visualizing, identifying and ordering speed reduction gearing configurations, particularly enclosed worm gear configurations, by a system comprising a mechanical display and a digital computer, which cooperate in a novel mann... | 10/16/1990 |
| 4964060 | Computer aided building plan review system and process A plan checking data processing system (10) has an input (12) for providing a development plan to be checked to the system in a form intelligible to the system (10). Memory (18) contains standards (22) against which the development plan is to be checked, ... | 10/16/1990 |
| 4953094 | Method for lofting blanks and compounding plates for shell structures Methods for lofting flat metal starting blanks and for compounding curved metal plates from the flat starting blanks can be used in lofting and fabricating boat hulls, aircraft and automobile bodies, tanks, containment vessels, and other shell structures.... | 08/28/1990 |
| 4945492 | Apparatus and method for determining net section parameters of truss connector plates Net section parameters of connector plates at selected truss joints are determined by representing each wood member as a corresponding two-dimensional polygon and the connector plate as a rectangle of predetermined dimensions corresponding to the actual d... | 07/31/1990 |
| 4942537 | System for assembling and disassembling a mast An apparatus for assembling or disassembling a mast comprising a plurality elongate mast sections adapted to be attached together in end-to-end configuration. The apparatus includes a lifting assembly for raising or lowering the mast from its bottom end, ... | 07/17/1990 |
| 4937768 | Integrated assembly system A method of assembling the separate components of a multi-component article includes generating a master definition of the article as a graphic data set in a 3-dimensional graphics computer system including coordinate points precisely locating the design ... | 06/26/1990 |
| 4931944 | Method of optimizing a vehicle assembly line build sequence A method of scheduling the building sequence of a plurality of objects on an assembly line in order to minimze the cost of building the objects is disclosed. Each object has a plurality of attributes, which together with the position of the object in the ... | 06/05/1990 |
| 4885694 | Automated building control design system Disclosed is a computer system for substantially automating the design of a building control system. The system comprises a processor for processing data stored in a data base, the data being related to a building control system design and comprising both... | 12/05/1989 |
| 4868766 | Method of generating and processing models of two-dimensional or three-dimensional objects in a computer and reproducing the models on a display A method of generating and processing models of two-dimensional and three-dimensional objects in a computer and of reproducing the models on a display is presented. The models are created according to the user's instruction by means of geometric operation... | 09/19/1989 |
| 4858146 | Automated design of structures using a finite element database A design and analysis system uses an engineering data base in which Finite Element Models of structural components, such as offshore structures are stored. The data base is controlled by a network type database management system to provide input of "finit... | 08/15/1989 |
| 4855939 | 3D Dimensioning in computer aided drafting A computer aided drafting (CAD) procedure presents, for a three dimensional (3D) object to be modeled in a general purpose computer, dimensional and tolerance parameters appropriate to changes of view or parameters. The procedure requires but one model, t... | 08/08/1989 |
| 4852055 | Forming lines in computer aided pattern generating systems Lines of various slopes and positions are generated simply in a computer aided manual drafting system. Such lines may be drawn with a modified puck manually movable over a surface to control the position of a cursor in an electronic computer display, and ... | 07/25/1989 |
| 4849913 | Method for the design and construction of composite parts An improved system and method are designed to take engineering composite drawings released in a computer-aided design (CAD) data set, determine the attributes of each of the plies into its composite drawing, and pass the information on to using orgnizatio... | 07/18/1989 |
| 4847778 | Computerized sheet metal layout system A compact, transportable computerized apparatus for designing sheet-metal fittings commonly used in the ductwork of ventilation systems. The apparatus is intended for use directly by sheet-metal workers at a job site. Designs for fittings are made one at ... | 07/11/1989 |
| 4845328 | Apparatus for and method of induction-hardening machine components An induction-hardening machine for the contour hardening of machine components such as gears includes a machine with both high-frequency and low-frequency induction generators operably arranged with corresponding induction coils positioned at a machine wo... | 07/04/1989 |
| 4831546 | Method and apparatus for assisting layout design A layout design assisting system operates in the following steps. A drawing of a layout area for installing a plurality of layout objects is displayed on a display unit. The operator specifies one of the displayed layout objects. Another layout object whi... | 05/16/1989 |
| 4823277 | Forming plated through holes in a printed circuit board by using a computer controlled plotter Plated through holes in a printed circuit board can be conveniently produced during manufacture of the circuit board under the control of a computer controlled plotter by the use of a pen-like instrument which positively displaces a thick film fluid condu... | 04/18/1989 |
| 4819178 | Automatic circuit adjusting system and circuit adjusting tool therefor An automatic circuit adjusting system comprises a circuit adjusting tool assembly. The circuit adjusting tool assembly is movable to adjust different orientations of circuit elements. The circuit adjusting tool assembly has a plurality of adjusting tools.... | 04/04/1989 |
| 4817024 | Spectacle-frame shape data producing method A spectacle-frame shape data producing method in which a spline interpolation function is used to digitize the shape M of a spectacle frame to provide spectacle-frame shape data, and the shape M of the spectacle frame is obtained by a lens maker's factory... | 03/28/1989 |
| 4789947 | Inspection system and method for mechanical structures In conjunction with an unmanned, remotely controllable apparatus for inspecting, testing and viewing and for examination and evaluation of the general condition, state of repair, and of the quality of fabrication of mechanical structures including bridges... | 12/06/1988 |
| 4785399 | Shaping geometric objects by cumulative translational sweeps Cumulative translational sweeps are used to shape geometric objects in a computer model, and they permit display of the resulting changes in shape in the object modelled, and control of processes involving the object modelled. If the geometric object is p... | 11/15/1988 |
| 4757461 | Process for graphically representing a structure A process for graphically representing a simulated workpiece as processed by a numerically-controlled machine tool. Stored data defining the workpiece and the tool as well as program data defining relative movement therebetween are used to generate polygo... | 07/12/1988 |
| 4700318 | Project construction with depiction means and methods Construction of projects such as buildings, bridges, dams, industrial plants, means of transport, or the like with the aid of means and methods for incremental depiction of such buildings, etc. Complex structural features of the construction project are d... | 10/13/1987 |
| 4700317 | Automatic layout planner and a method for automatically creating a layout plan Automatic layout planning without previously specifying place of each parts is made possible by utilizing groups of rules each comprising a condition section and a procedure section. An appropriate group of rules can be called from a knowledge base accord... | 10/13/1987 |
| 4642780 | Space planning/facilities management system using priority and affinity colors Disclosed are a system and a method useful in fields such as architecture, space planning, interior design and corporate facility management, for efficiently designing and allocating space to the various subdivisions of an organization. Manipulation of co... | 02/10/1987 |
| 4586145 | Photogrammetric method Structural details of industrial plants are derived from stereo-pair photographs by analyzing the structure into basic 3D unit shapes. The information is stored in a data store and may be obtained by interrogation of the store, as a direct print out throu... | 04/29/1986 |
| 4554635 | Method and apparatus for marking or cutting laminar patterns or forms The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for creating, laying out and cutting patterns on laminar sheet material having particular application to air handling ducting which permits the fully automated creation of the patterns required to su... | 11/19/1985 |
| 4551810 | Method and apparatus for designing duct work and for producing patterns for conduit sections in the designed duct work A method and apparatus for partially automatically designing a conduit network and automatically producing patterns for cutting out the sides of conduit sections from laminar material. The CAD-CAM system eliminates the detailing of fittings and other comp... | 11/05/1985 |
| 4550376 | Inspection system for mechanical structures Remotely controllable and manipulable unmanned apparatus for safely inspecting, testing, viewing and for non-invasive examination and evaluation of the general condition, the state of repair, and of the quality of fabrication of mechanical structures such... | 10/29/1985 |
| 4480480 | System for assessing the integrity of structural systems Systems and methods for assessing the effect of at least one of a plurality of forces acting upon a structure. Structural moment detectors, combined with external signal and data-processing components or structural information detectors which are unitary ... | 11/06/1984 |
| 4464719 | Off-line method of depicting piping items of pipe specification files of a computer-aided graphics system, without duplications occurring A present invention relates to a method of depicting piping items of a pipe specification file of a computer-dominated piping graphics system, off-line, irrespective of piping class and without duplication. Interactive report generation increases likeliho... | 08/07/1984 |
| 4353117 | Method of diagnosing errors off-line in pipe specification files of a computer-aided graphics system A method of updating pipe specification files of a computer-dominated piping graphics system, off-line. Interactive cross-checking of new data increases likelihood of effective, later batch operations.... | 10/05/1982 |
| 4275449 | Modelling arrangements A collection of modelling elements having distinct forms and changeably interengageable for assembly to one another. Each element includes information stores and signalling paths via which said stores are connected in an information transfer network to en... | 06/23/1981 |
| 4181954 | Computer-aided graphics system including a computerized material control system and method of using same Description is hereinafter had to a digital computer-aided graphics system for producing in a plane having two-dimensional coordinate axes a planar representation of a three-dimensional pipeline described in easy-to-understand coded input format as a seri... | 01/01/1980 |
| 4061017 | Structural analysis system A system for determining the modal characteristics of a structure in which a plurality of driving signals which have a common preselected frequency and a preselected set of amplitudes and phases corresponding to the estimated parameters of a mode of inter... | 12/06/1977 |
